East Caprivi
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East Caprivi Oos-Caprivi Ostcaprivi | |||||||||
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1972–1989 | |||||||||
Coat of arms[1]
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• Self-government | 1972 | ||||||||
• Re-integrated into Namibia | May 1989 | ||||||||
Currency | South African rand | ||||||||
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East Caprivi or Itenge was a
Administrative history
Bantustan (1972–1980)
It was set up in 1972, in the very corner of the Namibian
Unlike the other homelands in South West Africa, East Caprivi was administered through the Department of Bantu Administration and Development in Pretoria.[3]
Representative authority (1980–1989)
Following the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference the system of Bantustans was replaced in 1980 by Representative Authorities which functioned on the basis of ethnicity only and were no longer based on geographically defined areas.
Representative Authorities had executive and legislative competencies, being made up of elected Legislative Assemblies which would appoint Executive Committees led by chairmen.
As second-tier authorities, forming an intermediate tier between central and local government, the representative authorities had responsibility for land tenure, agriculture, education up to primary level, teachers' training, health services, and social welfare and pensions and their Legislative Assemblies had the ability to pass legislation known as Ordinances.[4]
Transition to independence (1989–1990)
East Caprivi, like other homelands in South West Africa, was abolished in May 1989 at the start of the transition to
Leadership
See also
References
- ^ "The Flag Bulletin". Flag Research Center. 1 April 1979 – via Google Books.
- ^ "A survey of race relations in South Africa: 1974" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- S2CID 142811673.
- ^ https://www.lac.org.na/laws/1982/whi23.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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